Bengisu Gokce

Turkish born and raised Bengisu Gokce is a multi-genre violinist and singer, known for combining her Turkish roots with Eastern-European and Middle-Eastern traditions.

As a professionally renowned performer, Gokce's versatile playing has led her to share the stage with several music icons including Mark O’Connor, Tigran Hamasyan, Aynur Doğan, Shreya Ghoshal, Toninho Horta, Shankar Mahadevan, Simon Shaheen, Amal Murkus, and Pablo Ziegler.

Throughout her career she has performed in various distinguished venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Boston Symphony Hall, American Repertory Theater, MFA Boston, Roulette Intermedium, Shapeshifter Lab, Ithra Theatre (Saudi Arabia) and Monte Carlo Salle Garnier (Monaco). She has also been featured in albums and recording projects with Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, sitar virtuoso Purbayan Chatterjee, drummer Antonio Sánchez (Pat Metheny Group), clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski (NY Gypsy All Stars), and many more.

Gokce was one of the featured artists in the Berklee Indian Ensemble’s debut album Shuruaat, which was nominated for the Best Global Music Album at the 65th Annual Grammy ️Awards.

As an educator, Gokce is the violin instructor, orchestra director, and the administrative director at the Center For Arabic Culture (CAC) and the violin instructor at the Veronica Robles Cultural Center (VROCC).

A multi-award winner, Gokce is a classically trained violinist and a performance alumna of Mersin University State Conservatory in Turkey, Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, Germany, and Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. She is currently an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music.